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Young filmmakers honored at Student Academy Awards

Ap Entertainment Writer

Updated:
06/07/2014 10:50:02 PM EDT

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Student Academy Award Foreign Category winners Lennart Ruff, left, Hadas Ayalon, center, and Peter Baumann pose together for a portrait at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 in Los Angeles. The 41st Student Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the DGA Theater on Saturday, June 7, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifteen student filmmakers from around the world were honored with Academy Awards on Saturday night in a preview of the showbiz excitement that likely awaits them in the years ahead. Previous winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won eight statuettes.

The 41st annual Student Academy Awards were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with gold, silver and bronze medals awarded in five categories. The ceremony at the Directors Guild Theater in Los Angeles included presenters Adrian Grenier, Nate Parker and Demian Bichir.

Tel Aviv University and the U.K.'s Northern Film School were first time winners this year, and Stanford University and New York University saw double wins.

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